Cairt

Cai's art on the 'net. My main blog is greenhairedfae, this one's just for art and my fandom blog is elsaxmerida.

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You love me too.

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Sorry for the lack of posting, I’ve had computer troubles.

My dad wants for Megara’s response to be, “That’s no dinglehopper and I know dingle-hoppers.”

What do you think Meg should say?

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Play my Visual Novel and let me know what you think~

Purple by SnittenStudios

Separated by the internet, screens, and pixels, can two queers find love?

It's free, it's about trans lesbians, it's drawn in an art program from the 80s, you can play it in your web browser if you'd like.

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@kittybroker How much for this refreshing feline?

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Drinks up! A crisp refreshing bottle of feline now selling $3.99 a piece!

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I luv them 💖🌌✨

Based on this picture:

Days to complete: 3

Made in Clip Studio Paint

Tablet: Wacom

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this was too cute to not do my own take on it

I'm putting a couple of the last steps because I think I overworked it but also if it's just one image because it's tiny tumblr stretches it in an ugly way.

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Watch Once Pile© - In & Out

Is this old 90s flick a dumpster fire or a delight?

My girlfriend and I have a new weekly (hopefully) project where we watch a movie together from our watch once pile and I sketch a still from it and she writes about our thoughts on it.

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'Apple-y ever after ❤️🍏

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thank you Canada 🇨🇦

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FUCK YEAH GO CANADA!!!

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Cinderella Year: 1/365

Have Courage, Be Kind

The Tale of Cinderella

🦋🦋🦋🦋/5

This is a novelization of the 2015 Disney live action Cinderella. I like the book substantially more than I remember liking the movie. I may have been too harsh with the film when I saw it but I also think that the book benefits from making Ella's thoughts clearer than the movie can.

This will mess up a kid forever

And directly informs her decisions on how to interact with her new family.

A lot of this is subtext in the movie but I think where the movie falls flat, is in that I remember getting the impression of Ella's choice to remain passive in the face of abuse being something of an irritation, and the story condoning it. Which I don't think that the novelization necessarily doesn't have but it's clearer about the how and the why of that form of toxic femininity, and clearer that it is toxic, specifically with how Ella chooses to interact with her father, and not letting him see her pain.

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I've seen a lot of people say Gaider can't write women, but I wasn't able to find any specific examples/explanations. Looking at the female characters he's written in the games, none of them are my favorites but I can't think of anything misogynistic/sexist about their writing. Is this a problem that's more blatant in his novels (which I haven't read)? I've found your discussions on his writing the Dalish and his attitudes towards Indigenous people really enlightening, and it really does seem that he isn't a particularly great writer in many ways, despite the world he's helped create.

It is EXTREMELY blatant in the novels, yes. Also in the comics he wrote, with Isabela. @sha-brytols has been posting recently about Adrian in Asunder if you want some examples right away, (and I also have a whole commentary series on Asunder here,) but I think you make an excellent prompt for me to perhaps write a full detailed examination of how Gaider treats the female characters in his novels and comics. And actually, where I've been struggling to find the words lately while working on my qunari piece, I might press pause on that to switch gears and write this next...

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adrian's writing in asunder is infested with misogyny. it's something you'd have to read to really believe. she's constantly described with words that invoke a specific "short, ugly, chubby, frizzy hair" appearance in the reader's mind, and the one single time she's spoken about in an even mildly flattering manner, it's here:

That argument went on for what seemed like hours, until finally Red Hair stalked off and spent her time brushing the horses. She liked the horses. She talked to them in a soothing voice and gave them names. When the tiny mage was with the horses, she became pretty, all the anger and hard lines on her face dissolving away. Cole would suggest she do more of that if he didn't think she would yell at him for it.

she's also constantly used as a way to contrast evangeline, the love interest. one is patient, open-minded, quiet. the other is rude, angry, loud....

and then there's that line in the stolen throne about katriel daintily eating her porridge while everyone around her is wolfing it down LOL. women are cooonstantly written to make a point of femininity and softness in his books, and the ones that don't fit into this are vilified and used in contrast with the "correct" ones.

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as mentioned in the previous tags, it's pretty present throughout the games as well. morrigan especially is a pretty stereotypical "ice queen" archetype who can be "softened" (for lack of a better word) by her romantic relationship with a male character to some extent (this "softening" does not solely occur inside a romance or with a male warden tbc, but the romance frames the same events very weirdly and is also very... transactional?) she is incredibly sexualized and her entire romance is frankly heterosexual and plays into gender roles to an unbelievable degree. some of the shit you can say to her while still having a good relationship with her boggles the mind—iirc you can just outright call her a bitch. a lot of the early/mid romance especially treats her as a sexual object. and as others have touched on, she and her writing get hit hard in general with the whore part of the madonna/whore complex. a lot of misogyny with morrigan is also little things scattered throughout as well that are harder to bring up as examples off the top of my head.

cassandra gets framed oddly as well. in many ways her "masculine" role as a blunt warrior feels as if gaider is trying to "make up" for it with her love of romance and wish to be courted. he also wrote fiona, both in the novels and in-game, and was the one who decided that the headstrong former slave who started a rebellion would sell all her people into slavery and do nothing in IHW. which i truly just have nothing to say about beyond that because what the hell?

gaider's misogyny is also present in his writing of his male characters (or more accurately, in the women surrounding his male characters)—think how in alistair's backstory/quest the women around him get framed as shrill and oppose him for very "petty" reasons. isolde is portrayed as stupid and overtly emotional (she is notably the only one who actually cries during the redcliffe castle portion of the quest, including the child you can kill) in comparison with her male counterparts, teagan and eamon. and goldanna is. well, first of all, she's named goldanna which is clearly a play on "gold digger" and she gets incredibly unsympathetic framing for not wanting a relationship with alistair, before she is promptly dismissed. none of this is to say that everything about how these two treat him is alright, but male characters who oppose/manipulate him (like, say, eamon) don't get villainized in the same way, and even when they are outright villains, they get much more respect than the female characters are shown (loghain).

and in zevran's backstory he quite cruelly murdered his female lover and we, as a player, are primarily intended to have sympathy for him.

gaider is also responsible for the writing of the human noble origin, where if you play a female cousland, you are berated for not being more feminine and trying to get married to a man while eleanor talks about how it was the "softer pursuits" that earned her a husband (which later canon also reveals as just straight up not true lmao).

there's also broader phenomenon across the games he's responsible for as the head writer who okayed some of this, even if he wasn't directly involved in those writing decisions and didn't have absolute control over everything himself—as an example @thewardenisonthecase pointed out recently that, across every single dlc and origins itself, and including temporary companions, there are only three female warrior companions and two out of those three die. and then in the later two games he worked on we only get two more. total. in comparison, there are at least seven male warriors across the first three games, and i know i'm missing some, if only because i did not count any dlc or temporary characters.

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Let's also not forget basically everything with Yavana, Morrigan's sister who had only ever been helpful to Alistair & co., who he's consistently suspicious of because Morrigan is suspicious, who he just sort of stabs out of nowhere.

Yavana

“In destroying what it does not understand, mankind would destroy itself.” Yavana is an infamous Antivan Witch of the Wilds known as the "Be

This is the second time that I read about a guy stabbing a woman through with a sword in an infuriating way in something Gaider wrote and the moment I had the realization that Gaider has some issues with women and will continuously write moments like this. Alistair's actions here are completely unjustified. I literally reread this page like 4 times because I still don't understand what reason he had for this.

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I'm an autistic lesbian drawing things. I really like disney movies, old art programs, and fountain pens.